Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Mystery unfolding, 0 by AlohaHoya

AlohaHoya wrote:
This is the strangest pedicel, rachis, umbel forming I have ever seen! When you look straight on at the umbel forming, the little buds are steel grey. The pedicel is purple (but new growth on the plant is NOT purplish), and the flowers forming look more like a thistle than a hoya.

I got this hoya 2 years ago from Ed Gilding with the label "H. fraterna?"...and the fact that he had never seen it bloom. The leaves are like H. coriacea so I didn't give to much hope for anything else...until the pedicel formed. I have not a clue...if anyone else does, I would like to know. I have never seen a hoya flower forming like this before....the buds are almost pointed!!!